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'Stranger Things' plays the too-long game in its super-sized season finale

1 July 2022

"Stranger Things" has taken the idea of playing the long game to heart a bit too literally, capping its super-sized fourth season with two sprawling episodes that total nearly four hours. Whether that's a reward to fans or self-indulgence by the producers rests in the eye of the beholder, but after this, it's hard to imagine many concluding that ending things with season five qualifies as premature.

'The Princess' can't quite rescue itself from a violent, definitely not-Disney movie

1 July 2022

For anyone wondering why "The Princess" is premiering on Hulu in the US, not sister service Disney+, the movie answers that in the first five minutes, when the title character brutally dispatches a pair of guards sent into the tower where she's being held. While the timing seems right for a princess who rescues herself, there's precious little substance to this violent fantasy, featuring Joey King figuratively letting down her hair.

'The Terminal List' strands Chris Pratt in a dead-end series as a different kind of avenger

1 July 2022

Amazon has flexed its muscles with military-style action series (see "Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan" and "Reacher"), but "The Terminal List" adds a numbingly simple-minded revenge saga to that subgenre. Despite the promotional benefits of featuring star-producer Chris Pratt as a grittier kind of avenger, this brutal eight-episode slog squanders its talent in front of and behind the camera.

Marta Kauffman, co-creator of 'Friends,' 'embarrassed' now by its lack of diversity

1 July 2022

Marta Kauffman says she now gets why people have been critical of "Friends."

Brian Austin Green and Sharna Burgess welcome their first baby

1 July 2022

Actor Brian Austin Green and professional dancer Sharna Burgess have welcomed their first child together.